About Us
We have been collecting amber in the field and prepping rough fossil
amber specimens since 1993. Photographs of our specimens have appeared
in National Geographic, Nature, Science, Scientific American, Discover,
Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and others. We have been featured
in PaleoWorld's The Amber Hunters. We offer authentic museum quality
Dominican Amber display specimens of rare insects in amber and also
authentic rare Dominican rough unprepared amber for sale. Our collections
include museum quality rare insects in amber, unusual botanicals
and flowers in amber and also rough unprepared Dominican Amber gemstones.
We have traveled many times to the Dominican Republic where we have
chiseled beautiful amber gemstones out of the lignite layers deep
in the amber mines north of Santiago. We have excavated in the Palo
Quemado and Los CaCaos blue amber mines and also in La Nueva Toca
and the world famous La Toca amber mines way up in the mountains
north of Santiago. For many years we have extensively collected
mid Cretaceous New Jersey amber in the Raritan formation of central
New Jersey and have traveled many times to collect late Cretaceous
and early Paleocene amber in the Hanna formation of eastern Wyoming.
We have collected mid Cretaceous amber in the Black Creek formation
of eastern North Carolina and we have spent weeks collecting mid
Cretaceous amber in the northern most Tundra of Alaska. Some of
our most recent collecting trips have been in October of 2003 to
the western Aleutian Islands some 1000 miles west of Anchorage to
explore and collect Miocene amber, August of 2004 and April of 2006
we were back in the Dominican Republic to collect Miocene amber
from the Palo Quemado amber mines which have recently closed due
to the miners finding little amber, we were back to the Dominican
Republic in April of 2006 to video in the La Toca amber mines, and
most recently in August of 2007 we excavated in La Toca and La Bucara.
The La Toca amber mines had much water whereas on the other ridgeline
the La Bucara amber mines were nearly dry! We collected much amber
from both La Toca and La Bucara.
We have donated many hundreds of amber specimens to museums in the
United States and have several dozen new species of insects in amber
named after us. We have examined several thousand specimens of rough
Burmese amber and have prepped many new Burmese fossil amber specimens.
We have traveled to Europe with colleagues to examine unusual spectacular
Dominican Amber specimens in private collections and we consider
the amber curators of the museums in Santo Domingo, Puerto Plata
and New York City our friends. Exploring for and collecting amber
along with the examination and research of amber is our passion.
To view photos and videos of our some of our amber excavations
in the amber mines in mountains of the Dominican Republic and to
see a small java applet of the amber mines click
here - (opens in a new browser window). Our amber comes direct
from the Dominican Republic amber mines east of the world famous
La Toca amber mine. These specimens do not go through any middle
men, we acquire these specimens from the miners and mine owners
directly at the amber mines.
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